Let’s Get It On

Let’s Get It On Lyrics

[Verse 1]
I’ve been really trying, baby
Trying to hold back this feeling for so long
And if you feel like I feel baby
Come on, oh come on, ooh

[Chorus]
Let’s get it on, ow baby
Let’s get it on, let’s love baby
Let’s get it on, sugar
Let’s get it on, woo

[Verse 2]
We’re all sensitive people with so much to give
Understand me, sugarSince we got to be, let’s live, I love you
There’s nothing wrong with me loving you, baby no no
And giving yourself to me can never be wrong
If the love is true, oh baby ooh

[Verse 3]
Let's get it on, let's get it on
You know what I'm talkin' 'bout
Come on baby, let your love come out
If you believe in love
Let's get it on, let's get it on baby
This minute, oh yeah let's get it on
Please, let's get it on hey hey

About “Let’s Get It On”

“Let’s Get It On” is a deceptively simple declaration of sex-positivity, released at a time when such statements were revolutionary. It is even more impressive when one considers that it was created by a man awakening from the trauma of growing up constantly physically and emotionally abused by a preacher father who conditioned his children to regard sex as shameful. That father, Marvin Gaye Sr., would infamously murder his son in 1984.

The song celebrates a turning point for the younger Marvin, who first learned to play music in the church and at one point endeavored to follow in his father’s footsteps as a minister.

In “Let’s Get It On,” Marvin is still making spiritual music, but this time to elevate the act of physical love and exalt it as an expression of a living person’s potential on Earth.